How Science Education Can Save the World, Huffington Post, December 21, 2015 — University of Massachusetts professor Scott Auerbach tells us how science education can help us save the world (and stop climate change). Hint: the answer involves rethinking how we approach science and mathematics with students.

Animated Life: The Living Fossil Fish, The New York Times, December 22, 2015 — This animated documentary covers the discovery of the so-called living fossil, the coelecanth, described here as “an awesome survivor and one of the biggest natural history surprises of the 20th century.”

A Deeper Confusion (PDF), Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2015 — A detailed and informative review of two popular books about junk DNA—John Parrington’s The Deeper Genome and Nessa Carey’s Junk DNA—by Georgi K. Marinov, who worries that they are “guaranteed to only generate even deeper confusion.”